AFTER SCHOOL ART CLASSES AT THE ART CENTER
Classes are held in the Art Center classroom from 3:30 to 5 pm for children 5 - 6 years old on Mondays, 7 - 8 years old on Tuesdays, and 9 -12 years olds on Wednesdays. Each class costs $33 for members and $40 for non-members. All materials are provided. $5 sibling discount for more than one family member enrolled during the same session. Join the Art Center for $45 and the whole family saves on classes for one year. Class size is limited and not guaranteed until payment is received. Scholarships are available. To enroll, download this form and mail or fax it to the San Luis Obispor Art Center.

February 3:30-5 pm
Mondays February 1, 8, 15 Fun with Color with Heather Demostenes Learn to work abstract using light and shadow with lots of different materials for a mixed media approach. Reg#: Feb-A	Tuesdays February 2, 9, 16 Adventures in Imaginary Beasts with Susan Connors Create animal-like creatures that pop off the page. Line, shape, color, texture plus your imagination will take 2-D art into the 3-D world. Reg#: Feb-B	Wednesdays February 3, 10, 17 Big Ideas, Big Brushes with Alissa Maddren Stretch your painting skills. Expand your ideas in charcoal and acrylic paint using easels. Bigger is better! Reg #: Feb-C
March 3:30-5 pm
Mondays March 1, 8, 15 Printmakers at Work! with Heather Demostenes Build your own cardboard printing block, then use brayers and inks to repeat your idea in water-base ink. Reg #: Mar-A	Tuesdays March 2, 9, 16 Print Prints: Printmaking with Susan Connors Explore printmaking using found objects, carvings and textures. Explore the printmaking process as you experiment with multiple images. Reg #: Mar-B	Wednesdays March 3, 10, 17 Subtractive Printmaking with Heather Demosthenes Carve your own print blocks. Explore single and multi-color designs. Use a printing press to print your work. Reg #: Mar-C
April 3:30-5 pm
Mondays April 12, 19, 26 What a Relief! with Heather Demostenes Build a relief sculpture. Use paint and collage while adding texture to your artwork. Reg #: Apr-A	Tuesdays April 13, 20, 27 Luscious Desserts with Susan Connors Use pastel colors and simple dessert shapes like artist Wayne Thiebaud as you do your own drawings and paintings. It’s all about tints in shadow and light. Reg #: Apr-B	Wednesdays April 14, 21, 28 Book Blast! with Deborah Spatafore Make awesome books that pop, fold and flip. Transform basic books into your own embellished one-of-a-kind book. Reg #: Apr-C

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Paso Robles Summer Art Camps. 2 sessions for children 7-8 and 9-12 years old at the Bauer Elementary School, Monday-Thursday, 9 to noon. All materials provided. Scholarships available. Cost: $75 per session.
Download Schedule and Registration Form. Cost $75 per camp.

Watch for Summer Art Camps in 2010

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AFTER SCHOOL ART CLASSES at Monarch Grove Elementary. For 5 to 12 year olds. All materials are provided. Class size is limited and not guaranteed until payment is received. Scholarships are available. To enroll, download this form and mail or fax it to the San Luis Obispo Art Center.

5 - 8year olds
Thursdays, 2:30 - 4:00
With teaching artist Anna Easter

February 4, 11, 18, 2010
Shapes in Nature
Young artists at work! Use the organic shapes in nature to plan and inspire your artwork. Combine positive and negative shapes in your composition. Arrange your own still life for drawing and painting. Cost: $33

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AFTER SCHOOL ART CLASSES will held at Ocean View Elementary School. All materials are provided. Class size is limited and not guaranteed until payment is received. Scholarships are available. Download Winter 2010 schedule and application form.

Thursdays 3:00 to 4:30 pm
Grades 3 thru 6
with teaching artist Susan Connors

February 4, 11, 18
Fantastic Surrealistic Creatures
Create animal-like creatures that pop off the page. Learn how line, shape,
color, texture and imagination can change artwork from flat to 3-D.

March 4, 11, 18
Printmaking
Experiment with found and carved objects to create your own handmade
prints. Explore the printmaking process to make your artwork multiply!

April 15, 22, 29
Luscious Desserts
Find inspiration in the delightful pastel colors and sumptuous desserts
painted by artist Wayne Thiebaud. Focus on value, tints and shades.
Learn to alter colors to create appealing paintings.

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AFTER SCHOOL ART CLASSES at San Gabriel Elementary School. Tuesdays, 3 to 4:30 pm. $44 enrollment fee per month. All materials provided. Scholarships available.
Visa and MasterCard accepted.

No classes scheduled at this time.

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AFTER SCHOOL ART CLASSES at the Old Grammar School in Cambria. Thursdays, 3:30 to 5 pm. $33 enrollment fee per month. All materials provided. Scholarships available. Visa and MasterCard accepted. To enroll, download this form and mail or fax it to the San Luis Obispo Art Center.

Thursdays 3:30-5pm
For 8-12 years old with teaching artist Suzette Morrow

February 4, 11, 18, 2010 Weaving Through Nature
Discover how various cultures use weaving from available natural resources. Students will be introduced to various forms of weaving using paper, yarn sticks and other found objects. Cost: $33

March 4, 11, 18, 2010 Basically Abstraction
Create 2-d and 3-d artwork based on the abstract styles of Nevelson, Picasso and Kandinsky. Drawing and painting and 3-D materials will be used for your creative expressions. Cost: $33

April 15, 22, 29, 2010 Building Community
Artists work as a team on a variety of collaborative projects relating to the community of Cambria. Plan and create a mural around everyday places, people and things where you live. Work as collaborative artists to creative narrative scenes of Cambria. Cost: $33

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Loose Action Oil Painting
Friday - Sunday, November 5–7, 2010
9 am–4 pm, Nybak Wing
with Robert Burridge

NEW! Oil on canvas, emphasis on Abstract Expressionism powered by left brain thinking and free wheeling techniques. All learning levels welcome.

$315 members, $365 nonmembers
Course #LA10

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WINTER/SPRING MOVIES 2010

Herb & Dorothy
Monday, February 15, 7 pm

Directed by Megumi Sasaki, 89 minutes, 2008
Herb & Dorothy tells the extraordinary story of Herbert Vogel, a postal clerk, and Dorothy Vogel, a librarian, who managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history with very modest means. In the early 1960s, when very little attention was paid to Minimalist and Conceptual Art, Herb and Dorothy quietly began purchasing the works of unknown artists.
After thirty years of meticulous collecting and buying, the Vogels managed to accumulate over 2,000 pieces, filling every corner of their tiny one bedroom apartment. In 1992, the Vogels decided to move their entire collection to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. The vast majority of their collection was given as a gift to the institution. Today Herb and Dorothy still live in the same apartment in New York with 19 turtles, lots of fish, and one cat. They've refilled it with piles of new art they've acquired.

The film received the Golden Starfish Award for the Best Documentary Film and Audience Award from the 2008 Hamptons International Film Festival. It has also received Audience Awards from the 2008 SILVERDOCS Film Festival and the 2009 Philadelphia Cinefest. Palm Springs International Film Festival named HERB & DOROTHY one of their "Best of Fest" films in 2009.

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A Life in Print
March 15, 7 pm

Directed by Michael Fraser, 2008, color, 60 minutes
A rich historical record of Chicano art, life and culture since WWII, A Life in Print is a profile of printmaker Xavier Viramontes, one of the most influential artists of our time and a founding member of Galeria de la Raza. His iconoclastic silkscreen poster, "Boycott Grapes," for Cesar Chavez and the United Farmworkers rallied a nation and sparked the Chicano movement in art.

Featuring interviews with art historians, artists, curators, and contemporary colleagues, and complemented by wonderful archival photographs, film and video footage, the documentary showcases Viramontes at work in his studio and beautifully illustrates the various influences on his artistic output - from the political to the personal, tradition, personal identity, community and the rituals of a Chicano family.

"Boycott Grapes" is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American Art in Washington D.C., and the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque New Mexico. Xavier's artwork is also in the permanent collection of the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, IL. www.alifeinprint.net

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The Mona Lisa Curse
April 12, 7 pm

Directed by Mandy Chang, 2008, color, 128 minutes
Though it sounds like the a sequel to The Da Vinci Code it is actually a documentary about Robert Hughes and his view on the current relationship between money and art and how this came to be in the past thirty years. The Mona Lisa Curse examines how the world's most famous painting came to influence the art world. Hughes describes with remarkable clarity the forces seeking to tame art, putting it in the market driven and controlled cultural landscape. 'The Mona Lisa Curse' was the winner of the top honors at the 2009 International Emmy Awards.

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Who Gets to Call it Art?
May 17, 7 pm

Directed by Peter Rosen, 2006, color, 78 minutes
Who Gets to Call it Art? is a wild ride through the fascinating 1960s New York art world, seen through the eyes of first contemporary art curator for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Henry Geldzahler. The culmination of the film is the famous and hugely controversial show Geldzahler put on in 1970 at the Metropolitan. "New York Painting 1940-1970". It was a blockbuster and still resonates to this day. We get to see inside his home and the beautiful objects with which he had surrounded himself. Never-before-seen footage of artists including Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and Roy Lichtenstein as well as exclusive interviews with artists Frank Stella, David Hockney, and James Rosenquist provide a vibrant and entertaining look at ten amazing years when American artists challenged everything and forever changed the world of art. One of TIME Magazine's top ten DVDs of 2006.

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Transformed by Flame
June 14, 7 pm

Directed by David Womack, 2008, color, 63 minutes
This two-time Emmy Nominated documentary titled "Transformed by Flame - The Glass Art of Frabel", takes us on a trip to Germany and the Czech Republic to showcase the history of glass, the Frabel Studio and Hans Godo Frabel. Frabel, a pioneer in transforming flamework glass into an art form, shares his incredible talent and shows works he created over the years. The movie details the history of glass and glass art throughout the ages and the creation of some of the most incredible flamework glass sculptures of all time. The documentary includes interviews with President Jimmy Carter (one of the many famous Frabel collectors), Hans Godo Frabel, Tina Oldknow (curator with the Corning Museum of Glass), Robert Mickelsen (glass artist), and Dr. Dirk Springer (Schott Glass, Germany).

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In A Dream
July 12, 7 pm

Directed by Jeremiah Zagar, 2008, color, 78 minutes
Over the past four decades, artist Isaiah Zagar has covered more than 50,000 square feet of Philadelphia with stunning mosaic murals. In A Dream is a documentary feature film that chronicles his work and his tumultuous relationship with his wife, Julia. It follows the Zagars as their marriage implodes and a harrowing new chapter in their life unfolds.

Winner of the SXSW, Philadelphia, San Francisco Docs, Biograph, Full Frame and Woodstock Film Festivals.

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Life Drawing Studio
Wednesdays 9 am - noon, Nybak Wing

Uninstructed figure drawing sessions coordinated by Doña Deack. Life model, long and short poses. Bring your own art supplies. Tables and some easels are available. No reservations.

Cost $10 members, $12 nonmembers per class.
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Life Drawing Studio
Wednesday Nights 6:30 – 9:30, Nybak Wing

Uninstructed figure drawing sessions coordinated by Jamie Giannotti. Life model, long and short poses. Bring your own art supplies. Tables and some easels are available. No reservations.

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Thursday Painters
Artists meet at inspiring locations throughout the county each Thursday, 9:30 a.m. through lunch.
Discussion and critique of art is included. Bring your own supplies and a bag lunch.

Email artmom5@gmail.com for locations and dates.
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Since 1992 Integrated Arts for the Classroom has offered workshops
• Demonstrating how the arts relate to the values of a culture
• Integrating the arts with other subjects in the curriculum through hands-on music, dance, theater and visual arts
• Based on California curriculum content standards and assessment rubrics
Contact bethmott@charter.net or call 805–543–7072 for information.
Dr. Bernice Loughran-Nicholson, Beth Mott and Susane Rotalo, Coordinators


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None scheduled at this time.

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